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ALFRED BARDELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,832, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed March 10. 1887. Serial No. 230,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED BARDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Impro vement in Pans, Dishes, and other Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in pans, dishes, and other utensils, as setforth in the following specification and claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of part of a pan or dish containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a View of a blank for a handle. Fig. 3 isa section in the plane y 3 Fig. 4. Fig. 4. shows in side elevation the manner of securing a handle to a utensil. Fig. 5 is a section in the plane 00 a Fig. 1.

Similar lettersindicate corresponding parts.

The pan, dish, or other utensil is formed of sheet metal or any other suitable mate rial,and comprises a base-bottom, A, sides B, and top flanges, C. These flanges are provided by slitting the utensil at its corners, and to strengthen the flanges I provide a re-enforcement, D, made, as shown in Fig. 1, by properly shaping a wire around which the flanges are twined in any suitable manner.

The utensil is shown as provided with a handle, G. Said handle can be readily formed from a suitable sheet-metal blank. (Shown in Fig. 2.) Said handle can be readily attached to the utensil by providing the handle with a lip, F, and placing such lip F between one of the flangesO and the re-enforcernent D, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, and then bending the lip F about this re-enforcement D to the position shown in Fig. 5 at the sametime that the flange is turned around the said re-enforcement.

To give room for the attachment of the lip F, a recess, E, Fig. 4, is cut into the flange U at the place of attaching the handle G. The handle G is by this method of attachmentleft free to swing about the ire-enforcement D, as seen in Fig. 5. The flange O at the cut-out portion forms a stop, 6, to limit the motion of the handle G in one direction, as indicated in Fig. 5, the recess E being of such depth that the material of the flange O at this part is partially curled about the handle-lip, Fig. 5, in the operation of securing the handle to'the pan. When the handle is turned to a vertica-l position, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, its lower portion comes into contact with the stop 6.

"What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The cornbination,with the utensil A,formed with the turned-over flanges O, inclosing a re-enforcing wire, D, and cut away to form a recess, of the handle G, having a lip, 'F, inclosing the re-enforcing wire D at the cutaway flange of the utensil, and limited in its movement in one direction by the cutaway flange, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED BARDELL. [L. s.]

WVitnesses:

E. F. KASTENHUBER, A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr. 

